london expo 2011

Yep because standing in an enormous queue and getting my toes trodden on, just to get pissed at a bar with a load of dick uni students is my idea of fun lol. Unless you're one of those people, who really piss me off, or one of those people who give free hugs, then there's nothing there to interest an otaku at those way overpriced events. I wrote this elsewhere some time ago, when I was trying to start a forum, and its still true now. "I know there are lots of anime forums in English but only a few of them are specific to the UK, and I dont feel like theyre run correctly or aimed at the right target audience. I know theres lots of anime fans and cosplayers aged from their early teens to early twenties (like 12 to 22 year olds) who feel alienated from mainstream British culture and who like Japanese pop culture such as anime and manga, but who dont "get" the whole drinking scene at the cons and might not even be able to go to one because of our age, or who dont feel a need to go round glomping people we dont know at the Expos, or just feel left out from it because of some other reason. And I intend this site as a place for us to talk to other fans in our age group who feel the same way as ourselves about otaku stuff either online or if we meet IRL."

All cons bring in a huge range of people from all of the country. Sure the venue is big and the queues are long but I really enjoy it. I love the (crowded) friendly atmosphere. There's plenty of anime and manga there as well as voice actors every year. You have no obligation to go drinking nor will anyone try and make you. I'm not sure why you would group yourself with people like that if you didn't drink. I don't drink and I've never had a problem there. You seem to be taking the worst of all cons and grouping it into one. Glomping is very rare and if it happens you've pretty much given the okay for it to happen. No one will hug you without permission and so on. What are you trying to say, that you are part of a higher "class" so to speak of anime fans that don't do all the "KAWAII DESU" things the silly new fans do? And other than the obvious crowdedness of the con (that they have been improving each year with more and more space) what's wrong with it?